Nadorite (Type Locality) ex John White Coll.

Item Description

Nadorite is a rare lead, antimony halide and Djebel Nador is the Type Locality. A 3.7 x 3.0 cm sculptural vug is lined with tabular nadorite crystals to 8 mm. One side of the vug is bounded by a vein of glassy smithsonite. Another smithsonite vein on the back appears to also contain yellow-brown crystals of bindheimite, renamed as oxyplumboromeite. The overall richness is significant. I am told that most of these were found during the French expeditionary times of the late 1800s and early 1900s, by the French colonial geological exploratory bureau BRGM (and have seen some such labels turn up on the market with nadorites, time to time, which confirms this). The only locality for superb larger crystals of this rare species. Ex W.D. Christianson Collection and John White Collection of Seattle.